Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Sony Corporation publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
listener.exe
VaioCare Sample Collector Service by Sony Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 3, 0, 0, 407 |
| MD5: | 5e8687798fc2c1d3c5baeeb8c57ad395 |
| SHA1: | c636610b6a074da4f8c010b744aa3f2f572148ce |
| SHA256: | b78d802a2747c566dd7cab66e2d1375ea522ebcaf1a4e71f3585c119237e194e |
Overview
listener.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
vcperfservice.exe (VAIO Care Performance Service by Sony Corporation). It is installed with a couple of know programs including VAIO Care published by Sony Corporation, VAIO Care from Sony Corporation and VAIO Care by Sony Corporation. The file is digitally signed by Sony Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | listener.exe |
| Publisher: | Sony of America Corporation |
| Product name: | VaioCare Sample Collector Service |
| Description: | VaioCare Window Listener Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\sony\vaio care\listener.exe |
| File version: | 3, 0, 0, 407 |
| Size: | 74 KB (75,776 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Sony Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, March 28, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, March 28, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“VAIO Care can help and the ASSIST button is a shortcut that allows you to open VAIO Care. I’d like to explain the benefit of this program. Whether you enter VAIO Care from the ASSIST button or start menu, this utility can guide you through troubleshooting steps, system updates, configuration tools and system tune-up options. VAIO Care is actually a built-in troubleshooting and maintenance program that comes installed on your VAIO PC to ...”
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00008858% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005182% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003676% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 88 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,361/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.26 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.87 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.6 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.26 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 58.08 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 59.38 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.79 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 4.88 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,360/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 17 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 16 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 1 | |
| Handles: | 46 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 10 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 4 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
33.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
Canada installs about 33.33% of VaioCare Sample Collector Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
100.00% |
|
